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[KingDavid]

The social security numbers with people over 120 years old and way older that musk found is funny. I checked Snopes on it and their highlight about it is

While an audit published in 2023 found that the central Social Security database, known as the Numident, does include 18.9 million people born before 1920 who do not have death information on record — making them more than 100 years old if alive — only 44,000 of them were receiving Social Security Administration (SSA) payments.

It's funny because that's a huge chunk of the pool that scammers get CPNs from

Snopes is lefty fact checker site. No different than watching CNN or MSNBC.

Ah, didn't know that. I was curious about what they'd highlight about it and it seems no one on the snope staff knows what cpns are. I wanted to see if that would've been mentioned. The amount of high lines of credit given over the years with those SSNs must be astronomical.

[KingDavid]

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2025/02/18/state-department-halts-plan-to-buy-400m-worth-of-armored-vehicles-from-tesla/

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

While it was in its planning phases, the deal with Tesla was forecast to be the largest contract of the year. It shows how some of his wealth has come and was still expected to come from taxpayers before the plans were put on hold. His companies obtain hundreds of millions of dollars each year in contracts. SpaceX has secured nearly $20 billion in federal funds since 2008 to ferry astronauts and satellites into space.

Something something misuse of government funds. Something something corruption. Something something slush fund and money laundering.

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-is-the-state-department-about-to-pay-tesla-400-million-for-cybertrucks/21860274/

But on X, the social media platform Musk owns, he wrote Feb. 13, "I’m pretty sure Tesla isn’t getting $400M. No one mentioned it to me, at least."

In a statement to PolitiFact, the State Department confirmed Tesla isn’t in store for that money. The department said the Biden administration had pursued the possible purchase. Biden had signed an executive order in 2021 encouraging government agencies to buy electric vehicles when possible.

The department also said that specifying "Tesla" in the spreadsheet was an error. The statement said that only one company had responded to the offering, and that was Tesla, but that the spreadsheet should have cited a generic electric vehicle manufacturer rather than Tesla specifically, since it was open to any company. It described the bid solicitation as being on hold, with "no current plans to issue it."

So you were able to find an article of Must himself denying the plan to misappropriate funds (who woulda thunk?!?) for his **** garbage dumpster on wheels. But you were not able to find the articles that specifically talk about the so called 18.9 million people over 120 years old actually being the result of a well known coding principle and not actually being 18.9 million people over that age? This is something that Must and his 17 year old hacker squad would know if they were even semi-decent at what they're doing.

I grabbed that quip from Snopes (which apparently is left leaning) to see if they'd talk about the other consequences of having those SSNs available. This is purely out of curiosity to see if they'd mention CPNs through those SSNs. To the date I linked the article, there was no mention of coding principles (COBOL?) causing it appear as if 18.9 million people are hundreds of years old. But I can say scammers will use aged & deceased SSNs for CPNs if they're not using EINs. Snope says there are still 44,000 SSN payments to those aged over 120. Coding principle or not, there's still 44,000 fraudulent payments going out at the minimum if what Snopes says is true. EDIT; actually, I don't think they go THAT old though, not the stuff over 150 and such, thats an easy flag. It'd be hilarious if there wasn't any very old SSNs like it's been reported. That would be twice now (afaik) that Elon spouted misinformation because of a lack of due diligence & ignorance.

As far as Musk goes, as it goes for every single politician I look at; there is always a chance that it's pure lies or embellishments to curry favor. If that is the case & it becomes apparent, I guess we'll see how it gets handled. If Elon had intentions to misappropriate funds, well he may have backed out before there was any viable proof of wrongdoing. In the meantime, if he's being honest lol, he's finding tons of taxpayer money.

Information comes out, I wait for the reactions from both sides to see how it's received and keep it pushing. I'm just too busy to be emotionally invested in political theater over something I can't control. I'm really curious to see if Doge is going to audit the DoD. That should be interesting.

Apparently there's been a surge of Google searches in DC for criminal defense lawyers, Rico laws, and Swiss banks lately. So something's going on and I guess we'll find out soon.

[KingDavid]

Sure some of it may be misused. But a lot of the money in USAID does good in 3rd world countries. But regardless even if you completely stop the 50 billion of USAID budget and fire every federal employee, that won't change much to the deficit.

This is all smoke and mirrors. It does nothing. The biggest drivers of the deficit are the Trump tax cut mostly to the rich and corporations, social security, Medicare and defense spending. If you are not touching those 4, you are never balancing the deficit. Raising taxes on the rich and corporations to help reduce the deficit seems the easiest one to do. But Republicans never do and republican voters don't care but cry about corporate influence. Then the next one is defense.

And if we are talking about transparency and accountability, republicans are the worst at it. The biggest problem in US democracy is you need a ton of money to run. So either you are part of the party machinery or you are a billionaire or you sell your soul to donors. And this was made worse by the conservative supreme court which removed the limits corporations and individual can spend on super pacs in elections. So now you have Elon Musk you run the republican party because he can threaten to spend billions to sponsor primary challenges to any congressman or senator who doesn't vote the way he wants. So how is that democracy ?

If you really wanted a democratic USA. You would need to undo the supreme court decision and limit how much an individual or corporation can donate. You would introduce term limits for everyone, senators, supreme court justices. You would mark public the tax returns for anyone running for federal office. And you would get rid of the electoral college and have a direct election. As long as their is an electoral college the two parties will have monopolies on the system.

But I don't see anyone on the right championing any of these ideas. The only person who talks about is Bernie Sanders. And I'm not his biggest fan. All we got from the right are conspiracies but they're not going after what would actually make a difference is which limiting corporate power. In fact the opposite. 3 of the richest men in the world were front row for the inauguration. The richest man in the world who isn't a born citizen has been given complete access to the US government. He hasn't been vetted or approved by congress but he has the power to unilaterally fire anyone in employment and control how federal money is spent while also being CEO of multi billion corporations. Yet the right sees no problem with this.

So Trump Musk go on and fire regular working class employees and give your buddies tax cuts. That will fire your base while the rich get richer

Usaid is just a laundering facility for Democrats and rino Republicans. Ukraine war also another way to launder money for politicos. Think Harris and waltz would of stopped Ukraine war and negotiated peace? I am all for whoever uncovers fraud and corruption. Next up department of education. Did you know only 9% of budget of department of education actually goes to students k-12. Where does the other 90% of $238billion go? This exposure would of never happened if Harris/Democrats won election.

People want live in their own fantasy reality instead of accepting the truth as is. If you don't want to help Ukraine that fine. But don't pretend they're not at war. They're being invaded by a superior arm, their economy is in tatters. They've lost significant territory. Aid from US and Europe is the only reason they have not fallen. And most of the money given its not money. Most of its arm from US inventory. The money then gets spent to replace the inventory spent.
On education here an article where money goes https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-most-federal-education-funding-2026257
Eliminate it and a lot of states will have huge deficits for their school programs. US used to be a leader in education but they're falling behind because one party absolutely demonises any investment in education. In terms of exam scores, STEM graduates US has fallen behind east Asia countries. I dont hear any proposals from Republicans how to make Education in the US better. Its all cut department of Education. Cut it then what. How do states makes up the shortfall. And again like in every single republican proposal its poor people who will suffer. Schools in rich and middle class districts will be fine. But schools in poor districts who need the funding won't be.
And again my point remains. If you want to start on corruption. You need to start with corporations. Anything else is BS. And republican voters fall for it.
If Trump and Musk came out and said, we will work to eliminate corporate subsidies, limit corporate donations to politicians, eliminate corporate tax loopholes, make sure corporations pay tax at same level as other countries then I'd take them seriously on the other stuff. But they don't look at the rich or corporations. They look at stuff that affects poor and middle class and make balooney about it and Republican voters just eat it. Musk was on TV next to Trump admitting he lied on the 50 mil Gaza condoms. Why should I trust anything else he says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/some-of-the-things-that-i-say-will-be-incorrect-musk-backs-away-from-false-claim-of-50-million-for-gaza-condoms/ar-AA1yUikc?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Oh wow, I didn't know about this. That's sloppy AF. You KNOW you're under an unimaginable amount of scrutiny; the least Elon could do is have iron-clad facts about what is found instead of "oh, no one bats .1000". Comes with being unqualified I guess.

[Tim_Hardawayy]

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[Bmaster]

The social security numbers with people over 120 years old and way older that musk found is funny. I checked Snopes on it and their highlight about it is

It's funny because that's a huge chunk of the pool that scammers get CPNs from

Snopes is lefty fact checker site. No different than watching CNN or MSNBC.

Ah, didn't know that. I was curious about what they'd highlight about it and it seems no one on the snope staff knows what cpns are. I wanted to see if that would've been mentioned. The amount of high lines of credit given over the years with those SSNs must be astronomical.

My favorite is there are 3 million ssns still paying out to people over 150 yrs old. Snopes is tied into George Soros.

[Shewasfly]

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I don't understand the point you're trying to make with this video.

[Shewasfly]

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-is-the-state-department-about-to-pay-tesla-400-million-for-cybertrucks/21860274/

So you were able to find an article of Must himself denying the plan to misappropriate funds (who woulda thunk?!?) for his **** garbage dumpster on wheels. But you were not able to find the articles that specifically talk about the so called 18.9 million people over 120 years old actually being the result of a well known coding principle and not actually being 18.9 million people over that age? This is something that Must and his 17 year old hacker squad would know if they were even semi-decent at what they're doing.

I grabbed that quip from Snopes (which apparently is left leaning) to see if they'd talk about the other consequences of having those SSNs available. This is purely out of curiosity to see if they'd mention CPNs through those SSNs. To the date I linked the article, there was no mention of coding principles (COBOL?) causing it appear as if 18.9 million people are hundreds of years old. But I can say scammers will use aged & deceased SSNs for CPNs if they're not using EINs. Snope says there are still 44,000 SSN payments to those aged over 120. Coding principle or not, there's still 44,000 fraudulent payments going out at the minimum if what Snopes says is true. EDIT; actually, I don't think they go THAT old though, not the stuff over 150 and such, thats an easy flag. It'd be hilarious if there wasn't any very old SSNs like it's been reported. That would be twice now (afaik) that Elon spouted misinformation because of a lack of due diligence & ignorance.

As far as Musk goes, as it goes for every single politician I look at; there is always a chance that it's pure lies or embellishments to curry favor. If that is the case & it becomes apparent, I guess we'll see how it gets handled. If Elon had intentions to misappropriate funds, well he may have backed out before there was any viable proof of wrongdoing. In the meantime, if he's being honest lol, he's finding tons of taxpayer money.

Information comes out, I wait for the reactions from both sides to see how it's received and keep it pushing. I'm just too busy to be emotionally invested in political theater over something I can't control. I'm really curious to see if Doge is going to audit the DoD. That should be interesting.

Apparently there's been a surge of Google searches in DC for criminal defense lawyers, Rico laws, and Swiss banks lately. So something's going on and I guess we'll find out soon.

OK.
But Must isn't a politician. And he shouldn't have access to all the information that he does. He has zero clearance and has never been vetted. This is all highly illegal. I'm surprised so many people think a multibillionaire is going deep into the government for any reason other than his own purposes, let alone to altruistically "find tons of taxpayer money".

[HeatFanLifer]

Snopes is lefty fact checker site. No different than watching CNN or MSNBC.

Ah, didn't know that. I was curious about what they'd highlight about it and it seems no one on the snope staff knows what cpns are. I wanted to see if that would've been mentioned. The amount of high lines of credit given over the years with those SSNs must be astronomical.

My favorite is there are 3 million ssns still paying out to people over 150 yrs old. Snopes is tied into George Soros.

I have reached the point that I don’t trust anyone telling me facts. There’s some journalists and resources I find more believable, but there’s so much bias out there and everything has become politicized.

[KingDavid]

So you were able to find an article of Must himself denying the plan to misappropriate funds (who woulda thunk?!?) for his **** garbage dumpster on wheels. But you were not able to find the articles that specifically talk about the so called 18.9 million people over 120 years old actually being the result of a well known coding principle and not actually being 18.9 million people over that age? This is something that Must and his 17 year old hacker squad would know if they were even semi-decent at what they're doing.

I grabbed that quip from Snopes (which apparently is left leaning) to see if they'd talk about the other consequences of having those SSNs available. This is purely out of curiosity to see if they'd mention CPNs through those SSNs. To the date I linked the article, there was no mention of coding principles (COBOL?) causing it appear as if 18.9 million people are hundreds of years old. But I can say scammers will use aged & deceased SSNs for CPNs if they're not using EINs. Snope says there are still 44,000 SSN payments to those aged over 120. Coding principle or not, there's still 44,000 fraudulent payments going out at the minimum if what Snopes says is true. EDIT; actually, I don't think they go THAT old though, not the stuff over 150 and such, thats an easy flag. It'd be hilarious if there wasn't any very old SSNs like it's been reported. That would be twice now (afaik) that Elon spouted misinformation because of a lack of due diligence & ignorance.

As far as Musk goes, as it goes for every single politician I look at; there is always a chance that it's pure lies or embellishments to curry favor. If that is the case & it becomes apparent, I guess we'll see how it gets handled. If Elon had intentions to misappropriate funds, well he may have backed out before there was any viable proof of wrongdoing. In the meantime, if he's being honest lol, he's finding tons of taxpayer money.

Information comes out, I wait for the reactions from both sides to see how it's received and keep it pushing. I'm just too busy to be emotionally invested in political theater over something I can't control. I'm really curious to see if Doge is going to audit the DoD. That should be interesting.

Apparently there's been a surge of Google searches in DC for criminal defense lawyers, Rico laws, and Swiss banks lately. So something's going on and I guess we'll find out soon.

OK.
But Must isn't a politician. And he shouldn't have access to all the information that he does. He has zero clearance and has never been vetted. This is all highly illegal. I'm surprised so many people think a multibillionaire is going deep into the government for any reason other than his own purposes, let alone to altruistically "find tons of taxpayer money".

Right, but I treat his statements/findings like I do with politicians because that's the level of power he has. I thought musk already had max security clearance because of space-x? I'll look it up later to confirm. But the president has the power to request any necessary security clearance through....I think the DoD? So whether or not we think he's not deserving of it, Trump does and pretty much that's all that matters. The reason why it's all legal is because Doge is Obama's USDS department renamed. It's already in law. Congress would have to vote to repeal it to get him out and that ain't happening with a Republican controlled federal government.

Musk is auditing the DoD now. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fwg8ay/ I'm waiting to see what else he finds.

[ZoStrong]

I grabbed that quip from Snopes (which apparently is left leaning) to see if they'd talk about the other consequences of having those SSNs available. This is purely out of curiosity to see if they'd mention CPNs through those SSNs. To the date I linked the article, there was no mention of coding principles (COBOL?) causing it appear as if 18.9 million people are hundreds of years old. But I can say scammers will use aged & deceased SSNs for CPNs if they're not using EINs. Snope says there are still 44,000 SSN payments to those aged over 120. Coding principle or not, there's still 44,000 fraudulent payments going out at the minimum if what Snopes says is true. EDIT; actually, I don't think they go THAT old though, not the stuff over 150 and such, thats an easy flag. It'd be hilarious if there wasn't any very old SSNs like it's been reported. That would be twice now (afaik) that Elon spouted misinformation because of a lack of due diligence & ignorance.

As far as Musk goes, as it goes for every single politician I look at; there is always a chance that it's pure lies or embellishments to curry favor. If that is the case & it becomes apparent, I guess we'll see how it gets handled. If Elon had intentions to misappropriate funds, well he may have backed out before there was any viable proof of wrongdoing. In the meantime, if he's being honest lol, he's finding tons of taxpayer money.

Information comes out, I wait for the reactions from both sides to see how it's received and keep it pushing. I'm just too busy to be emotionally invested in political theater over something I can't control. I'm really curious to see if Doge is going to audit the DoD. That should be interesting.

Apparently there's been a surge of Google searches in DC for criminal defense lawyers, Rico laws, and Swiss banks lately. So something's going on and I guess we'll find out soon.

OK.
But Must isn't a politician. And he shouldn't have access to all the information that he does. He has zero clearance and has never been vetted. This is all highly illegal. I'm surprised so many people think a multibillionaire is going deep into the government for any reason other than his own purposes, let alone to altruistically "find tons of taxpayer money".

Right, but I treat his statements/findings like I do with politicians because that's the level of power he has. I thought musk already had max security clearance because of space-x? I'll look it up later to confirm. But the president has the power to request any necessary security clearance through....I think the DoD? So whether or not we think he's not deserving of it, Trump does and pretty much that's all that matters. The reason why it's all legal is because Doge is Obama's USDS department renamed. It's already in law. Congress would have to vote to repeal it to get him out and that ain't happening with a Republican controlled federal government.

Musk is auditing the DoD now. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fwg8ay/ I'm waiting to see what else he finds.

I don't think Musk had the clearance from his association w Space X. Some at the company do, but Musk, a famous drug user (allegedly) lol, couldn't get the clearance

[Bmaster]

Ah, didn't know that. I was curious about what they'd highlight about it and it seems no one on the snope staff knows what cpns are. I wanted to see if that would've been mentioned. The amount of high lines of credit given over the years with those SSNs must be astronomical.

My favorite is there are 3 million ssns still paying out to people over 150 yrs old. Snopes is tied into George Soros.

I have reached the point that I don’t trust anyone telling me facts. There’s some journalists and resources I find more believable, but there’s so much bias out there and everything has become politicized.

Well just know anything from mainstream media is a lie or distortion of the truth. They are all controlled by CIA and Soros clan. Fox is included they are run by lib son of Ruppert Murdoch. Pretty much anything on television is controlled distortion of truth. Stick with truth and facts

[contract]

It's 2025 and people still aren't sure if Elon Musk is a liar?

[Tony15]

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I don't understand the point you're trying to make with this video.

No need to rack your brain to try to understand, there is no point. Theft is against the law & nobody has the right to not pay taxes.

[Bishop45]

Damn, Tim got 10 toes down in Libertarian Youtube-- I appreciate the opportunity to put my head down that rabbit-hole, even though youtube is now suggesting me Rogan vids, that are all near vomit-inducing lol

From the experience with Libertarians I've known, Libertarians giving grace/support to Trump makes sense

[oreon]

My favorite is there are 3 million ssns still paying out to people over 150 yrs old. Snopes is tied into George Soros.

I have reached the point that I don’t trust anyone telling me facts. There’s some journalists and resources I find more believable, but there’s so much bias out there and everything has become politicized.

Well just know anything from mainstream media is a lie or distortion of the truth. They are all controlled by CIA and Soros clan. Fox is included they are run by lib son of Ruppert Murdoch. Pretty much anything on television is controlled distortion of truth. Stick with truth and facts

Lol the way ya'll talk about Soros you'd think he's Elon Musk. Sure like all billionaire donors he some influence. But its nowhere near close to the power Musk has. Musk is practically co running the government with Trump.
And for the CIA nonesense. Every president gets to nominate their own head of CIA. The president has full power to fire anyone in the CIA if he wishes. If there was this secret wing of CIA running american media why didn't Trump fire them in his 1st term.
Why doesn't he expose them now and prosecute them ? Well he can't. Cuz its all BS
I'm not capping for CIA, they do a lot messed up sheet globally. But this controlling American media is BS. If its not, Trump is president expose these people for the world to see. Prosecute them.

[KingDavid]

Trump is now going after USPS and fired the governing board. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2PYHpQe/

This opens the door for privatization of USPS if that's Trump's goal. If so, I wonder which billionaire is going to pick it up. Maybe bezos. It'll no longer be a service after that and shareholders will want profits. I'm not a fan of privatizing that, but we'll see.

[KingDavid]

OK.
But Must isn't a politician. And he shouldn't have access to all the information that he does. He has zero clearance and has never been vetted. This is all highly illegal. I'm surprised so many people think a multibillionaire is going deep into the government for any reason other than his own purposes, let alone to altruistically "find tons of taxpayer money".

Right, but I treat his statements/findings like I do with politicians because that's the level of power he has. I thought musk already had max security clearance because of space-x? I'll look it up later to confirm. But the president has the power to request any necessary security clearance through....I think the DoD? So whether or not we think he's not deserving of it, Trump does and pretty much that's all that matters. The reason why it's all legal is because Doge is Obama's USDS department renamed. It's already in law. Congress would have to vote to repeal it to get him out and that ain't happening with a Republican controlled federal government.

Musk is auditing the DoD now. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fwg8ay/ I'm waiting to see what else he finds.

I don't think Musk had the clearance from his association w Space X. Some at the company do, but Musk, a famous drug user (allegedly) lol, couldn't get the clearance

Oh, ok. Thanks for the correction. He could have attempted to go for top secret, but space-x lawyers recommended he didn't or else hes have to disclose his "previous" drug use and interactions with foreign nationals. That last one almost made my eyes pop out of my head. What on earth could he have done that his lawyers would recommend NOT to go for max clearance?

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-not-privy-all-of-spacex-work-us-government-2024-12

Musk obtained his top-secret clearance in 2022, following a review process that took years, the Journal reported. SpaceX's lawyers had advised the company not to seek a higher security clearance for Musk because he would have to disclose details about his drug use and interactions with foreign nationals.

Then there's this tweet;

Read on Twitter

[HeatFanLifer]

My favorite is there are 3 million ssns still paying out to people over 150 yrs old. Snopes is tied into George Soros.

I have reached the point that I don’t trust anyone telling me facts. There’s some journalists and resources I find more believable, but there’s so much bias out there and everything has become politicized.

Well just know anything from mainstream media is a lie or distortion of the truth. They are all controlled by CIA and Soros clan. Fox is included they are run by lib son of Ruppert Murdoch. Pretty much anything on television is controlled distortion of truth. Stick with truth and facts

I definitely don’t trust mainstream media, but some of the people on Trump’s team are not providing good information to the public either. Elon Musk himself has admitted not all the information he provides on DOGE activities will be accurate. That’s fine, but Trump needs to get some quality control done on that information then before it is “official”.

Trump won because people were tired of the establishment lying to them and the collectivist thought of the left that basically said you are with us or against us. A lot of people, myself included said well I guess I am against the left then and voted accordingly. I am now seeing “right wing” pundits though doing this same collectivist thought that discourages dissent. That would be a big mistake, especially with those who disagree on questionable “facts” being labeled as dissenters or even against those who habe some differing opinions but mostly agree on issues.

Disagreement is healthy in a democracy. Trump will need to get his side in line to continue to build his coalition or he’s gonna get hammered in the mid-terms due to disenfranchised voters.

[contract]

Trump is now going after USPS and fired the governing board. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2PYHpQe/

This opens the door for privatization of USPS if that's Trump's goal. If so, I wonder which billionaire is going to pick it up. Maybe bezos. It'll no longer be a service after that and shareholders will want profits. I'm not a fan of privatizing that, but we'll see.

Why would any billionaire want it? Just dissolve it and let people pay the actual cost of their deliveries by way of UPS or Fedex or whatever else.

I look forward to not receiving pounds of junk mail every week.

[contract]

Spoiler:

I have reached the point that I don’t trust anyone telling me facts. There’s some journalists and resources I find more believable, but there’s so much bias out there and everything has become politicized.

Well just know anything from mainstream media is a lie or distortion of the truth. They are all controlled by CIA and Soros clan. Fox is included they are run by lib son of Ruppert Murdoch. Pretty much anything on television is controlled distortion of truth. Stick with truth and facts

I definitely don’t trust mainstream media, but some of the people on Trump’s team are not providing good information to the public either. Elon Musk himself has admitted not all the information he provides on DOGE activities will be accurate. That’s fine, but Trump needs to get some quality control done on that information then before it is “official”.

Trump won because people were tired of the establishment lying to them and the collectivist thought of the left that basically said you are with us or against us. A lot of people, myself included said well I guess I am against the left then and voted accordingly. I am now seeing “right wing” pundits though doing this same collectivist thought that discourages dissent. That would be a big mistake, especially with those who disagree on questionable “facts” being labeled as dissenters or even against those who habe some differing opinions but mostly agree on issues.

Disagreement is healthy in a democracy. Trump will need to get his side in line to continue to build his coalition or he’s gonna get hammered in the mid-terms due to disenfranchised voters.

They voted for a conman because they were tired of getting lied to?

It's hard to imagine any type of scam he hasn't involved himself in no matter how petty or low rent.

The Empty Jewelry Box Scam

Back in 1986 and likely for many years before, Donald Trump colluded in tax evasion with Bulgari Jewelry Store in New York, a high-end posh location with tony clientele right out of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Here's how the scam worked:

Trump would go into the store with his wife, his girlfriend, his...whatever (to use his vernacular). He would then buy her an expensive necklace or wristwatch. Normally, such a transaction would face the New York city and state sales tax, which would be pretty high on luxury jewelry.

In an illegal attempt to evade the tax, Trump "asked" the store to instead ship the jewelry to an out of state location, where no New York sales tax could be collected. In fact, the store would merely send an empty jewelry box to the location, while Trump and his lady friends walked out the door with the jewelry that very day.

The state and city tax collectors eventually caught onto this scheme, and Trump promptly testified against his erstwhile tax evasion colluding partners at the jewelry store in order to save his own skin.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanellis/2016/03/08/donald-trump-and-the-empty-jewelry-box-tax-scam/

I think the only scam Trump has never profited from is three-card monte.